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Thank you all, If price will remain the save I will definitely go for RX580, cause 50+$ is still a lot of money, shops in my country probably overcharging for Nvidia because RX cards are rather unpopular in my country

so if you dont have a lot of money, but your main goal is good arma fps, then go with a z390 or z370 board with an 8350k, and learn to overclock. its about the same price as a ryzen cpu, but a good amount of more fps. and you can upgrade later.

what matters mostly is clock speed (and effectiveness), ring speed (north bridge seems to have a greater performance impact in arma, then in many other games), ram speed, disc speed. 20+ cores and threads do nothing for you.

or wait for ryzen 3 in about half a year. maybe they will get competitive in SC performance too.

I have a motherboard from the same generation. Mine too has an M.2 slot but it is essentially useless as it's such an early revision, it supports almost nothing.

In my quest for speed I ended up buying an Intel PCI-E SSD. Although the motherboard claims not to support NVME, using the supplied driver from Intel was good enough to get the drive going at full speed.

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Thanks for a huge amount of information on this thread. I've been playing since Op Flash, I'm just not savvy with computer technical jargon so please do excuse my lack of understanding.

I'm in the process of buying a new laptop for my Arma 3 mission making.

I usually like to play on Ultra settings with increased view distance and LARGE amounts of AI on the map. Usually I play these sandbox scenarios in single player then advance them into multiplayer with a few mates. I don't have the time or knowledge to include scripts in my missions to help reduce clutter. So I end up simply putting up with low FPS and a fully populated island full of modded units.

I'm looking at upgrading my laptop to cater for my large sandbox style missions and also to prepare for Mechwarrior 5's arrival in September. I'd be very grateful if anyone would be willing to find the Arma 3 bottlenecks with the following specs.

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1° Of course 32GB DDR4 3000MHZ (2x16GB) is the best but ... cost a lot

2° The size doesn't matter the point is to have OS and Arma* Steam library on SSD, Intel 660P Series 1TB PCIe M.2 SSD is OK

3° The GTX 1070 Max-Q is not a regular GTX 1070 for laptops, it's slower, that why performances are close to a GTX 1060 6GB.

@ Groove_C : ... " you wouldn't like to be forced to upgrade once again when A4 comes out." is not a good argument for many reasons, one being that because we do not even know if there will be an Arma IV.

Like many others, I wish a "Next Arma" but we all know that BI is always very ambitious, the consequences in terms of hardware requirements are unpredictable.

According to my own experience, I was forced to change my config with each new version of Arma.

That's how it's been since the move from OFP to Arma.

Edited December 30, 2018 by oldbear"Esprit d'escalier", because slow-witted in english don't sound so good ...